Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-11-05
PERSONAL.
Points of Interest Concerning Notable
People of the World.

| Points of Interest Concerning Notable
People of the World.
Mr.. James McWhorter Whistler, who is
known to his familiar friends as Jimmy"
Whistler, is again threatening us with his
Top. NJ. Nocturnes. He is nothing if not
eccentric, so he proposes to begin his lectures
at ten o'clock at night This is dangerous ex-
pertinent, for should he be uninteresting, he
will be received with more yawns than ap-
plause. By the way, it is not known that
Whistler's housekeeper was the model for
his picture the woman in White"
Tostoi the Russian novelist, although of
noble birth, affects the life of peasant and
the trade of a shoemaker. He dresses like
village artisan; his shirt is soiled with mud !;
his rough boots are covered with clay, and a
broad strap encircles his waist; his hair is
innocent of brush and comb. He works at
his shoemaker's bench part of the day, and
spends hours at his desk over those wild,
realistic romances which are so wonderful
and so depressing.
Appleton Morgan, the founder of and
president of the New York Shakspearean
Society, is a young man, about forty years
old, lawyer by profession, but literary
man by taste. He is short, five feet three,
inclined to be fat, and has all the jollity of
Falstaff without any of that renowned
knights bad qualities. After his favorite
hobby, Shakespeare, he is most Interested
in the New York and Palisade railroad, of
which he is the president.
Julian Hawthorne is one of the hand
soonest literary men now living. His face
does not possess that grand, majestic power
that distinguished his father, but it is per-
haps a countenance which has greater at
fractions for women. Over a beautifully
shaped heads fall curls of dark brown; his
eyes are very fine, and would brighten far
less handsome face; he is tall, graceful and
manly in figure; an athlete in strength, he
pulls the longest oar, lifts the heaviest dumb
bells, and is the best fencer at the Authors
Club.
The Prince of Wales is short, stout and
bald. He recently appeared in the park, at
Homburg, in calico shirt, red cravat un.
tanned leather shoes and soft brown hat
He is very friendly and companionable
man, and enjoys a holiday like a jolly
schoolboy He will be known in history as
the "Good-natured Prince" The story goes
that upon one occasion the prince called
upon Tennyson at his home, ON the Isle of
| Wight, and was denied admittarce the poet
having given strict orders to his servants to
admit no strangers into the house, and they
did not reco re the future King of Eng
land in the p .,ly gentleman wearing very
neglige morning suit. The prince retired
spontaneously from the door of the churl-
ish poet.
When the Duke of Buckingham was visit
ing this country some years since, he hap
pened to be in Philadelphia at the time
when the late Mr.. ]. B. Lippincott gave a
dinner in honor of Robert Chambers, the
eminent Edinburgh publisher. The duke
hearing of the affair expressed to Mr.. Lip
pincott his desire to be present at genu-
inc Philadelphia feed" Of course he was
invited, and sat down, as he afterward told
his host, to the "most elegant entertainment
he had ever enjoyed" There were present
at the dinner the governor of Pennsylvania,
the mayor of Philadelphia and the most
distinguished men of the day to the number
of 100. When Mr.. Lippincott next visited
England, the Duke of Buckingham invited
Mrs. Lippincott and himself to Stowe, the
sumptuous country-seat of the family.
Miss Balch, the daughter of the late Rev.
DR.. Balch, of Baltimore, was not long since
guest at Arundel Castle, the stately home
of the Duke of Norfolk. She distinguished
herself by her fearless horsemanship, and
received many trophies ofthe various hunts
and was complimented by the duke las the
straightest rider across country for a LADY,
he ever saw" DIANA, the divine huntress, +"
said Lord Warrington, as he watched her
flying figure leading over brook, ditch and
fences, through furze bushes holly thickets
then up the steepest of hills where she would
laughingly ask them to admire the view!"
then trot recklessly down again, through
growth of trees, to wide stretch of COM
mon, until reaching stream, which she
splashed smilingly through, then to the
home road and rapid trot to the end.
Upon one occasion, when taking up deer"
beautiful animal was entrapped, when the
Duke of Norfolk said, "Miss Balch, you shall
name this pretty creature" America"
she quickly replied, amid hearty applause,
and showing her loyalty to her native land
despite her flattering adoption in Old Eng
land. Miss Balch attended the Queens
drawing-room with her grace the Duchess of
Norfolk her dress Miss Balch's) was one of
Worth's neutrality-suspicious. of white
satin, with border of bluets; court train of
cherry sa in, with border of Marguerites; train
lined with cherry plush, white feathers (reg-
ulation), arranged with point dAlencon in
hair.
Lille Woodwork Reese whose poetical
contributions are attracting attention, is a
public-school teacher in Baltimore. She
does not care for society, but devotes all her
leisure hours to reading and writing. Love
is the favorite subject of her poetry, but she
also writes religious poems. Her poems are
generally short and intensely dramatic.
Miss Reese is about thirty years old-tall,
slender and graceful-a decided blonde, with
blue eyes and light brown hair.
Maggie Mitchell is in her sixty-tifth yerB
having been born in New York in 1923. She
made her debut at twenty, and was success
full from her first appearance on the stage.
Fanny Davenport is thirty-seven, and has
been ON the stage nearly all her life. Marie
Prescott is one Of the youngest of the theat-
rical stars, having been born in Kentucky
in 1883, and made her debut when she was
twenty-three years old. Dion Bouccault is
sixty-four and should be rich, but he has
never saved anything. He is the most pop